> This really is just a storm in a waterglass. Nothing like the hundreds or tens of thousands of flash and java applet based web pages that went defunct when we

> This really is just a storm in a waterglass. Nothing like the hundreds or tens of thousands of flash and java applet based web pages that went defunct when we deprecated those technologies. Sure, but Flash and Java were never standards-compliant parts of the web platform. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time that something has been removed from the web platform without any replacements—Mutation Events [0] come close, but Mutation Observers are a fairly close replacement, and it took 10 years for them to be fully deprecated and removed from browsers. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationEvent https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationEve...